Computing Competition

Digi-Key held its seventh annual Digi-Key Collegiate Computing Competition Friday, October 20, 2006. A total of fifteen teams from seven universities competed in the all-day event that was held at Digi-Key in Thief River Falls, MN. Over $7,000 in prizes were awarded to students and the departments they represented.

The four-person teams competed in two challenging computing sessions and one word problem session. Check out the 2006 problems these teams tackled:

• Short Programming Problems (1 hour)
• Long Programming Problems (1.5 hours)
• Word Problems (1 hour)  Answers

2006 Winners

Congratulations to the top three scoring teams, who received both individual prizes and department cash awards.

First Place

University of Minnesota - Morris - "Algonauts"
Points: 164.5 out of 705 possible
Team Awards: $200 Best Buy gift cards
Department Award: Bronze traveling trophy and $3000 cash prize

L to R: Nic McPhee (advisor), Andy Korth, Daniel Selifonov, Tyler Hutchison, Scott Lembcke

Second Place

Bemidji State University – Computer Information Systems - "CoBallers"
Points: 155.0 out of 705 possible
Team Awards: $150 Best Buy gift cards
Department Award: $1800 cash prize

L to R: Kathy Faggiani (advisor), Judith High, Alex Campbell, Erica Wisehart, Jarret Swanson

Third Place

University of North Dakota - "Viper D Squad"
Points: 103.0 out of 705 possible
Team Awards: $100 Best Buy gift cards
Department Award: $600 cash prize

L to R: Ron Marsh (advisor), Jon Robertson, Aaron Wenaas, Aaron Marbeck, David Lannoye

Other Competing Universities and Teams:

Bemidji State University – Computer Science – “Assemblers”
Bemidji State University – Computer Science – “Murrddel”
University of Minnesota Morris – Computer Science – “1337”
University of Minnesota Duluth – Computer Science – “MINOTN Is Not Our Team Name”
St. Cloud State University – Computer Science – “Overloaded Operators”
St. Cloud State University – Computer Science – “Drum Card”
St. Cloud State University – Business Computer Information Systems – “Chic Geeks”
St. Cloud State University – Business Computer Information Systems – “YesLogic”
North Dakota State University – Computer Science – “Asymptotic Essence”
North Dakota State University – Computer Science – “Pi Rho”
University of North Dakota – Computer Science – “NoName”
Concordia College – Computer Science – “Cobbers”

View photos from the 2006 competition
View past competition winners